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Snowflake and a number of our partners have come together to create the first, self-paced, vendor agnostic, online training academy for analytics in the cloud. This academy will get you up to speed on what is happening today in the cloud with respect to data warehousing and analytics so that you can be a leader in your organization.

The Cloud Analytics Academy is a training and certification program for data professionals who want to advance their skills for the technology and business demands of today’s data analytics. It’s a collective industry effort from executives at Snowflake Computing, AWS, Looker, Talend and WhereScape.

There will be quiz questions at the end of each session to test your retention. By completing the sessions and the quizzes in a track you will get a related academy badge. Anyone who completes all three tracks will be certified as a Cloud Analytics Academy Master.

The Academy launches on November 14th with a live keynote from Tom Davenport. You can get all the details and sign up here. (Don’t worry if you miss it as it will be recorded and available the rest of the year).

So what are you waiting for? Sign up today and take your career to the next level – above the clouds!

Snowflake is kicking off this year’s Cloud Analytics City Tour with a blow out event in London, England. This will be a full day workshop style event where you get to hear and learn from industry veterans and thought leaders like myself, and the CEO of Snowflake Computing, Bob Muglia (to name just a few). In addition we will have a Practitioner Panel discussion that includes several of our customers along with other industry thought leaders.

The unique value proposition for this event is that in the afternoon you can choose from two tracks of in depth sessions related to implementing your BI solutions and your data warehouse in the cloud.

I will be presenting my talk Agile Methods and Data Warehousing: How to Deliver Faster. My highly seasoned colleagues from Snowflake (all industry experts) will teach you about loading data in the cloud, deploying BI in the cloud, and how to best use Snowflake to be successful with your cloud analytics program.

And of course there will be food, drinks, and networking.

You can find all the agenda details here along with the registration form. Use discount code DATAWARRIOR for 50% off the registration fee. Sign up today!

This will be my first time ever in London, so if you are in the area, please come by, say “hi” and learn about the new world of Cloud Analytics.

Until then, cheers!

Kent

The Data Warrior

P.S. I will be in London the day before and after the event, so if you want to have a more detailed or personalized discussion of the benefits of cloud-native data warehousing, please reach out to me at kent.graziano@snowflake.net.

Snowflake Computing is making great strides in the evolution of our Elastic DWaaS in the cloud. Here is a recent update from engineering and product management on our integration with Spark:

This is the first post in an ongoing series describing Snowflake’s integration with Spark. In this post, we introduce the Snowflake Connector for Spark (package available from Maven Central or Spark Packages, source code in Github) and make the case for using it to bring Spark and Snowflake together to power your data-driven solutions.

Hey fellow data warriors! Here is a new joint blog post I just did with fellow data warrior Dale Anderson from Talend! Check it out. I hope you find the concept compelling!

So you want to build a Data Lake? Ok, sure let’s talk about that. Perhaps you think a Data Lake will eliminate the need for a Data Warehouse and all your business users will merely lure business analytics from it easily. Maybe you think putting everything into Big Data technologies like Hadoop will resolve all your data challenges and deliver fast data processing with Spark delivering cool Machine Learning insights that magically give you a competitive edge. And really, with NoSQL, nobody needs a data model anymore, right?

Avoid the data swamp! Use modern cloud based DWaaS (Snowflake) and the leading-edge Data Integration tool (Talend) to build a Governed Data Lake.